FRENCH

Les Desarrois du Moi: »A la recherche du temps perdu« de M. Proust et »Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften« de R. Musil

Book information

Publisher
Max Niemeyer Verlag
Year
1995
ISBN
9783110942651, 9783484630093
DOI
10.1515/9783110942651
Language
french
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10232942 bytes)
Series
Communicatio; 9
Edition
Reprint 2011
Pages
308\312
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-25 03:32:14

Description

This study employs methodological tools of a specifically literary nature to determine how in Proust and Musil a realisation of the late 19th century 'crisis of the subject' is dovetailed with a form of 'critical fiction' where the hero is at one and the same time a commentator 'at one remove' from the events he describes. An analytic lecture croisée of two of the major works signalling the advent of modernity is combined with close comparisons with other novels (Flaubert, Dickens, Th. Mann, J. Roth, Svevo etc.). It transpires that the underlying dynamic informing these apparently very different works in fact reflects identical aesthetic concerns on the part of the authors: the various forms of 'disarray' evidenced by the protagonist are in fact the point of departure for a new concept of the novel where the interaction between narrator, central figure and reader plays an essential role.

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